Jesse Shawl
Senior Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Shawl is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 14 years of experience blending marketing and engineering to build product-forward web experiences. Currently maintaining PayPal’s open-source JavaScript SDK, he brings deep Ruby on Rails and frontend chops honed through growth-focused roles at SolarWinds and hands-on startup leadership as founder of Free In Fact and UpDog Co. Educated in Philosophy and Linguistics, Jesse applies a human-centered perspective to technical problems, bridging product, design, and developer ergonomics. He’s also taught web development at General Assembly, which reflects a knack for distilling complex concepts and mentoring teams while shipping reliable software.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Linguistics, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Linguistics at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (200)
dom-element10
elm-architecture10
pocket10
ruby10
easing-functions10
kde-plasma10
declarative10
inspect10
paypal10
markdown10
checkout10
javascript10
mongoose10
jquery10
sdk10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ga-wdi-exercises/project3
Jun 2015 - Nov 2016
[Project, Mongo, Mongoose, Node, Express, React, API] Prompt for 3rd WDI Project using React, Node, Mongo, Express and Mongoose
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
mongodbmongoosereact
jshawl/field-guide-events-calendar
Sep 2025 - Mar 2026
🐦 A WordPress plugin to display events from Neon CRM
Contributions:3 releases, 52 PRs, 61 pushes in 6 months
wordpress-plugin
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